ActiveXperts Network Monitor ships with a large collection of PowerShell scripts and VBScript scripts to monitor and manage a network.

Use ActiveXperts Netork Monitor to monitor your virtualization servers, domains, computers and devices. It runs on a single Windows server, without agents required on the monitored systems. It has many built-in checks and also allows administrators to create custom checks using PowerShell, VBScript, WMI and SSH.

Introduction to Powershell 1.0

Microsoft Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting tool based on the Microsoft .NET Framework.
It is designed for system administrators, engineers and developers to control and automate the administration of Windows and applications.

More than hundred command-line tools (so called "cmdlets") can be used to perform system administration tasks and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
These cmdlets are easy to use, with standard naming conventions and common parameters,
and standard tools for piping, sorting, filtering, and formatting data and objects.

PowerShell features the following:

Support for existing scripting languages, existing command-line tools, and multiple versions of Windows.